Time does go on — Allegory of the Cave

Time does go on－¹
I tell it gay to those who suffer now－
They shall survive－
There is a sun－
They don't believe it now－

(F.1338/J.1121)

[1] Time:: time sentenced in prison, and the time passed.
[2] gay to those:: joyfully to those criminals in prison. who suffer:: prisoners.
[4] Sun:: the bright side, justice, contrary to dakeness, crime.
[5] They don't believe:: the criminals still on the street now.

With regard to the Idols of the Cave, they arise from each man's peculiar nature both of mind and body; and also from education and custom, and the accidents which befall particular men. For it is a most beautiful emblem, that of Plato's cave : for (not to enter into the exquisite subtlety of the allegory) if a child were kept in a dark grot or cave under the earth until maturity of age, and then came suddenly abroad, and beheld this array of the heavens and of nature, no doubt many strange and absurd imaginations would arise in his mind. Now we, although our persons live in the view of heaven, yet our spirits are included in the caves of our own bodies; so that they must needs be filled with infinite errors and false appearances, if they come forth but seldom and for brief periods from their cave, and do not continually live in the contemplation of nature, as in the open air. And with this emblem of Plato's concerning the cave the saying of Heraclitus agrees well, that men seek the sciences in their own proper worlds, and not in the greater world. ─ Works of Francis Bacon by James Spedding (1864)